Family Caregiving and Place of Death: Insights From Cross-national Analysis of the Harmonized End-of-Life Data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Family is largely overlooked in research on factors associated with place of death among older adults. We determine if family caregiving at the end of life is associated with place of death in the United States and Europe.

Method

We use the Harmonized End of Life data sets developed by the Gateway to Global Aging Data for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We conducted multinomial logistic regression on 7,113 decedents from 18 European countries and 3,031 decedents from the United States to determine if family caregiving, defined based on assistance with activities of daily living, was associated with death at home versus at a hospital or nursing home.

Results

Family caregiving was associ

SUBMITTER: Ailshire J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8355452 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature